Man lived with dad's dead body one week in filthy Auburn Hills home

2:22 PM,
May 13, 2013

Written by

Melanie Scott Dorsey
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Auburn Hills police are investigating the death of a 70-year-old man who was found Friday in his son's home, which city officials have since deemed uninhabitable.

Officers were called to the house in the 3800 block of N. Briarvale Road Friday for a welfare check on the man's 42-year-old son who failed to show up for work. When police arrived they spoke the son and determined that his 70-year-old father, Kenneth Johnson, was dead inside of the home and had been deceased for more than a week .

Police obtained and executed a search warrant for the house. A preliminary investigation shows that ...